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Open wide

The fridge compartment has about 17 cubic feet of storage space. That number is actually a little low for large French door models, most of which offer closer to 18 or 19 cubic feet of fresh food storage space.

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Main controls

You'll only find three buttons on the front of the fridge -- touch sensitive icons to switch between water, ice and crushed ice. The rest of the controls are hidden up here, behind the doors. That helps Kenmore maintain a simple, streamlined look, but it also means that you can't access things like temperature settings without opening the doors.

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Minute-by-minute

Here are the results of that last test graphed out over 72 hours. The butter bin gets a pass for running warm (that's its job), but the purple lines representing the other shelves in the right door are too warm for our tastes, coming in at 40 degrees F or above for almost the entire test.

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Cooling it down

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Price point

The Kenmore Elite 72482 has a fairly steep MSRP of $4,000, but Kenmore appliances are typically discounted pretty heavily on the Sears show floor -- more so than competing models. We've seen the 72482 for less than $3,000, which is a terrific value -- read our full review for the full story.